Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 23
“Very well, ancient witch,” said the knights, “show us the well with the waters of Life and Death.”
Who acts: ancient witch · What happens: say, show · To what, where: knights, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ancient | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 witch | amod |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knights | det |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 show | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 waters | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waters | det |
| 20 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Life | case |
| 22 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 waters | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Death | cc |
| 24 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Life | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ancient witch | the knights | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | infinitive | us | with the waters of Life and Death; well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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